[tex-live] texconfig conf

[Norbert Preining]

On Di, 29 Nov 2011, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>>   >  Hi, When I run texconfig conf I obtain no information whether I run
>>   >  it as root or not,
>>
>> Why should it tell you who you are?  TeX Live doesn't make any attempt
>> to find this out.
>
> Er, that is not what Ernesto probably meant, although I
> can see that some might misunderstand him.  I would
> re-cast his words as :
>
>
>>   >  Hi, When I run texconfig conf I obtain no information whether
>>   >  or not I run it as root.

And the answer remains the same,
	Why should tlmgr/texconf/whatever tell you that you are running
	as root. That you *definitely* should know yourself, and if
	you do NOT know, you should NOT be root!

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Norbert
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